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International criminal networks-some with links to terrorism-both represent an existential threat to democratic governance of already fragile states in West Africa, and are using drugs to buy political power, fray West Africa's traditional social fabric, and create a public health crisis. Drug trafficking represents the most serious challenge to human security in the region since resource conflicts rocked several West African countries in the ...

A timely, "solidly researched [and] gracefully written" (The Wall Street Journal) biography of President Andrew Jackson that offers a fresh reexamination of this charismatic figure in the context of American populism?connecting the complex man and the politician to a longer history of division, dissent, and partisanship that has come to define our current times.Andrew Jackson rose from rural poverty in the Carolinas to become the dominant figu...

As the world went to war in 1941, Time magazine founder Henry Luce coined a term for what was rapidly becoming the establishment view of America's role in the world, the twentieth century, he argued, was the American Century. Many of the nation's most eminent historians - nearly all of them from the East Coast - agreed with this vision and its endorsement of the vigorous use of power and persuasion to direct world affairs. But an important con...

A revelatory, timely, and masterful biography of President Andrew Jackson that offers a new perspective on this charismatic figure in the context of American populism—identifying the reasons for his unprecedented appeal as it shows us the man and politician in his full complexity.A number of bestselling and award-winning biographies have been written about the seventh president of the US, but none have positioned Andrew Jackson so firmly in th...

The fierce polarization of contemporary politics has encouraged Americans to read back into their nation's past a perpetual ideological struggle between liberals and conservatives. However, in this timely book, David S. Brown advances an original interpretation that stresses the critical role of moderate statesmen, ideas, and alliances in making our political system work. Beginning with John Adams and including such key figures as Abraham Linc...

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A "marvelous…compelling" (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America's most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States' dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation.Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely ...

Statistics and Data Visualization Using R: The Art and Practice of Data Analysis teaches students statistics visually, focusing on interpreting graphs and charts to learn statistical concepts, from the mean through regression.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A revelatory biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America's most prominent writers and intellectuals of his era, who witnessed and contributed to the United States' dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation.Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams ...

Il Metodo Silva prende il nome dal suo originatore, il texano José Silva (1914-1999), che a partire dai suoi studi di elettrotecnica ha dedicato la sua ricerca ai sistemi più efficaci per utilizzare al massimo grado le potenzialità della nostra mente. Queste tecniche essenziali, ispirate al Metodo Silva, ti porteranno oltre i confini della tua mente. Con questo programma pratico e progressivo imparerai infatti a utilizzare la tua mente in un m...

Questo libro racchiude una di quelle idee che, nella loro semplicità, si rivelano bellissime e vincenti. Brown ha infatti scelto di radunare in un solo volume tutti gli aspetti della cultura psichedelica - dalla musica alla psicologia, dalla meditazione allo spionaggio americano, dalla chimica alla botanica - per consentire al lettore una vera immersione in questo mondo, di cui tanto si parla e poco si conosce. Tra il 2006 e il 2014, ha incont...

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Deadman's Tome presents Final Contact. This volume of galactic terror features stories that warn of the consequences of bold space exploration, exploitative mining, venturing too far, and contact with foreign entities. You see, dear reader, we are not alone, and the first contact might just be the last!

In this lively book, David Brown locates jazz music within the broad aesthetic, political, and theoretical upheavals of our time, asserting that modern architecture and urbanism in particular can be strongly influenced and defined by the ways that improvisation is facilitated in jazz. Improvised music consists of diverse properties that fail to register in the object-oriented understanding of composition. As a result, it is often dismissed as ...